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A split-screen animation with a pixelated tie-dye pattern on the left and a solid magenta background with blue lines on the right.

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A split-screen animation with a pixelated tie-dye pattern on the left and a solid magenta background with blue lines on the right.

A split-screen animation with a pixelated tie-dye pattern on the left and a solid magenta background with blue lines on the right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • two static frames
  • no motion

Animation Summary

  • Two static frames: left side shows pixelated tie-dye pattern, right side shows magenta background with blue lines forming a face-like shape.

Composition

  • left-right split
  • radial burst on left
  • solid background on right

Dense Caption

Left side displays a pixelated tie-dye pattern with blended pastel colors including pink, blue, yellow, and white in a radial burst style. Right side shows a solid bright magenta background with three blue rectangular lines: two horizontal lines positioned above a single horizontal line, forming a minimalist face-like arrangement. The animation consists of two static frames presented sequentially without motion.

Description

  • A split-screen animation with a pixelated tie-dye pattern on the left and a solid magenta background with blue lines on the right.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated tie-dye magenta blue lines
  • split-screen animation pastel colors
  • minimalist face blue lines magenta
  • static frames tie-dye pattern

Preprocessing Notes

  • No motion detected; frames appear static

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains era and collection hints but no pixel evidence supports them

Wordwall

  • pixelated tie-dye
  • pastel colors
  • radial burst
  • solid magenta
  • blue lines
  • minimalist face
  • static frames
  • split-screen

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809121420521474720510
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e5/e5181b4ec3baab88ffa508da956b5649d081ab350e3ce26a1d14ce8282fcfd98.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC
Archive ID
e5181b4ec3baab88
SHA-256
e5181b4ec3baab88ffa508da956b5649d081ab350e3ce26a1d14ce8282fcfd98
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:56 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.117446

OpenAI category scores

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A split-screen animation with a pixelated tie-dye pattern on the left and a solid magenta background with blue lines on the right.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 23:50 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,081 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,141, response 657

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • magenta (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • split screen (style, 0.80)
  • blue lines (subject, 0.80)
  • tie dye pattern (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • two static frames
  • no motion

Animation Summary

  • Two static frames: left side shows pixelated tie-dye pattern, right side shows magenta background with blue lines forming a face-like shape.

Colors

  • pink
  • blue
  • yellow
  • white
  • magenta

Composition

  • left-right split
  • radial burst on left
  • solid background on right

Dense Caption

Left side displays a pixelated tie-dye pattern with blended pastel colors including pink, blue, yellow, and white in a radial burst style. Right side shows a solid bright magenta background with three blue rectangular lines: two horizontal lines positioned above a single horizontal line, forming a minimalist face-like arrangement. The animation consists of two static frames presented sequentially without motion.

Description

  • A split-screen animation with a pixelated tie-dye pattern on the left and a solid magenta background with blue lines on the right.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated tie-dye magenta blue lines
  • split-screen animation pastel colors
  • minimalist face blue lines magenta
  • static frames tie-dye pattern

Preprocessing Notes

  • No motion detected; frames appear static

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains era and collection hints but no pixel evidence supports them

Style

  • pixelated
  • minimalist
  • split-screen

Subjects

  • tie-dye pattern
  • blue lines

Wordwall

  • pixelated tie-dye
  • pastel colors
  • radial burst
  • solid magenta
  • blue lines
  • minimalist face
  • static frames
  • split-screen
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Full source records (1)

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)

Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
200809121420521474720510
Archive entry
200809121420521474720510.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture

Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809121420521474720510.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809121420521474720510.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016